ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,400, issued on April 21, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).
"Tableware utilization tracking system" was invented by Sagar Mangesh Pawaskar (Morrisville, N.C.), Phillip Monkowski (Apex, N.C.), Srijana Shrestha (Cary, N.C.) and Donna Roberts (Springdale, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of tracking utilization of tableware are presented. In one exemplary embodiment, a method of maintaining a historical record of food allergen exposure to tableware is performed by an electronic device having a sensing device operable to sense an identifier specific to and disposed with tablewar...